Senior Construction Scheduler

Since our founding in 1982, Shawmut Design and Construction (a 100% employee-owned company) has been recognized as a Best Place to Work 70 times by our employee-owners. At Shawmut, you will have the opportunity to own your career and deliver impact within our culture of ownership and innovation focused around providing the gold standard of client service for the world’s most recognizable and elite brands and institutions.

Here’s a glimpse into what we are offering:

• Competitive base salary and an annual bonus
• Health, Life, Long/Short Term disability, Dental and Vision insurance 
• Shawmut Flex – we have offered a flexible work remote environment for years and we encourage a flexible work environment that meets the business needs
• 401K with Match
• Generous Paid Time Off policy (Including vacation, summer Fridays, holidays, personal sick and volunteer day – which we can explain at time of interview)
• ESOP – be an employee owner
• The Extras: cell phone, laptop, tuition reimbursement, pet insurance, auto & homeowner (mortgage network & insurance savings) and many more

Shawmut is looking for a Senior Scheduler to join our team. The purpose of this role is to provide project teams with scheduling support, quality control, reporting, risk assessment and issues tracking/mitigation to help project teams meet their contractual obligations and deliver schedules on time.  This role supports teams in both Project Pursuit and Execution.  

Project Pursuit

• Participate in effort that drives development of proposals and interview preparation.
• Provides input during RFP process around logistics, schedules and constructability.
• Participate in client meetings, interviews and presentations.
• Develop bid schedule options and project logistics in deal reviews.

Project Preparation

• Develop comprehensive understanding of project strategy and deploy throughout preconstruction.
• Ensure proper set-up of and adherence to established best practices/processes.
• Verifies that projects are set up in compliance with published guidelines and that they allow for easy tracking against performance.
• Partner with estimating, project management and other key stakeholders.
• Serves as a scheduling expert and resource to assist Project teams develop baseline work plans that can be tracked throughout the construction process.
• Use historical data to develop activity durations

Project Scheduling

• Work with project teams to ensure every project is set up with a viable schedule, including procurement.
• Transition project to construction phase activities.
• Prepare concise monthly schedule narratives.
• Work with operations to periodically review schedule progress on active projects.
• Participates, drives and facilitates team schedule updates to verify performance against the plan and ensure that all parties are being held accountable. Ensures that updates are done in a logical and traceable way. Verifies that teams are inputting issues into the schedule real-time to verify impact to project critical path. Review results with Scheduling Director and appropriate Con Ops / Field Ops staff as required.
• Reconcile discrepancies from actual vs planned process and drive recovery process for projects facing scheduling challenges.
• Leverages available software to mitigate risks and increase visibility, communication and accountability for all Stakeholders. Keep up to date with industry and software advancements.
• Ensures accuracy when maintaining and organizing data.
• Provides schedule oversight throughout the construction process of projects that have been awarded.
• Create visual schedules, integrate lean methodologies into the CPM schedule, apply production management techniques via linear scheduling or takt planning.
• On a monthly basis, audits all schedules for conformance to SDC Guidelines and Industry standards. Verify that updates are being done, saved and distributed.
• Provide constructability feedback (challenges, risks, solutions).

People Development

• Coach and fill in gaps for construction operations staff who need scheduling support.
• Drive and participate in continuous learning efforts especially as it relates to scheduling methodology and industry best practices for schedule management, recovery and contractual requirements. Partner with IT to dovetail with Technical Training Efforts for software usage.
• Manages a Team of Schedulers.

Regional Reporting

• Develops and maintains Regional Reporting on Project Performance, SOP's and Risk
• Gathers and Organizes and Applies Project Lessons Learned.

• 8+ years of scheduling experience with advanced Primavara P6 experience required working at a General Contractor.
• Experience/knowledge in issuing claims.
• Strong presentation and proposal skills.
• Vast knowledge of all trades and all phases of the preconstruction processes: scope, time frames/field execution, typical missed scope/exposures, conceptual, final pricing/competitive bidding and market conditions.
• Construction experience preferred, but applicants from utilities background are welcome to apply!
• Lean construction experience preferred.

Eligible candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship or restriction, now and in the future.

Shawmut prohibits discrimination against any staff member or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, religion, national origin, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, genetic information, disability, creed, citizenship status, or any other legally protected characteristic.